Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice
3 Hours, 0 Minutes
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 12:00 PM EST -3:00 PM EST Daniel N. Watter
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 12:00 PM EST -3:00 PM EST Daniel N. Watter
3 CE Credits
Price
Paid
$59.99
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Description
This class provides IAPST credits which are eligible for credits toward Certification as a Sex Therapist. See iapst.org/certification
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Most ethics workshops have focuses primarily on the essential elements of risk management. While such concepts are clearly important, they represent only a fraction of what ethics and ethical practice should be about. Indeed, most ethics workshops encourage sex therapists (and other healthcare practitioners) to think more like lawyers than as clinicians.
This workshop will follow up on the previous ethics workshop that focused primarily on ethical theory. Here, we take participants beyond the typical admonitions of “bad behavior” and focus on the ethical nuances that clinicians face when dealing with the complex realities of actual clinical practice. Topics to addressed will include: the ethics of informed consent, the ethics of the ban on conversion therapies, and the vagaries of managing sexual feelings in psychotherapy/sex therapy.
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About the Presenter:
Dr. Watter is a member of several professional organizations, and has been elected to leadership positions in many. He has recently completed two terms on the New Jersey Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee where he spent two years as the Committee’s chairperson. He has also served as the President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), where he previously served as Secretary/Treasurer and Membership Officer. Dr. Watter is also the former chair of the Diplomate Certification Committee, and the Ethics Committee for the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). In 2009, Dr. Watter was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to the State Board of Psychological Examiners, and later re-appointed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
A frequent lecturer at professional meetings throughout the United States, Dr. Watter is also the author of several professional articles and book chapters on topics such as sexual function and dysfunction, and ethics in healthcare practice. He the author of the recently released text, The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality (Routledge).
Learning Objectives:
- 1. Identify the four principles underlying healthcare ethics codes;
- 2. Understand how the four principles can be utilized to create ethical policy and resolve ethical dilemmas;
- 3. Identify the ethical complexities of sexual feelings that occur within the process of sex therapy.
- 4. Identify the nuanced complexity of the informed consent process and how it applies to sex therapy practice.
- 5. Identify the internal complexities of policies banning conversion therapies.
Agenda:
HOUR 1
Introduction and overview of the day’s agenda
Brief review of Principlism.
HOUR 2
Ethics of informed consent
Ethics of conversion therapy bans.
HOUR 3
Managing sexual feelings in psychotherapy/sex therapy.
Conclusion/Wrap up
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0122.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0275.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
- The American Psychological Association approves the School of Sex Therapy to sponsor continuing education for
psychologists. The School of Sex Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The School of Sex Therapy is an approved continued education provider for the International Association of Psychosexual Therapists. The School of Sex Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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